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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Gastrotheca ernestoi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Gastrotheca > Species: Gastrotheca ernestoi

Gastrotheca ernestoi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 323. Syntypes: MZUSP 238 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 114; this corrected by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 3, to "holotype MZUSP 238" "an adult female with about 24 embryos in the dorsal pouch". Type locality: "Serra do Macahé, Estado do Rio [de Janeiro]", Brazil. This corrected by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 3, to "Municipality of Macaé, 22° 22′ S, 41° 47′ W, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil".

Gastrotheca viridis Lutz and Lutz, 1939, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 11: 81. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 969, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 20. Type locality: "[Fazenda do] Bonito, Serra da Bocaina at the limits of the States of S[ão]. Paulo and Rio de Janeiro", Brazil. Rendered by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 4, as "Fazenda do Bonito, Municipality of São José do Berreiro, 22° 30′ S, 44° 35′ W, State of São Paulo, Brazil". Synonymy with Gastrotheca longipes by Goin, 1964, Q. J. Florida Acad. Sci., 26: 347; with Gastrotheca microdiscus by Duellman, 1984, J. Herpetol., 18: 305; with Gastrotheca ernestoi by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 4, and Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2008, Rev. Brasil. Zool., 25: 100-110.

Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) viridis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.

Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) ernestoi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.

Gastrotheca (Australotheca) ernestoi — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 195.

Gastrotheca (Alainia) ernestoi — Duellman and Cannatella, 2018, Alytes, 36: 195.

Alainia ernestoi — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 431.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Region of the Serra dos Orgãos to the Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira, in the southern part of the state of Rio de Janeiro and extreme western São Paulo, as well as in the Serra do Brigadeiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Removed from the synonym of Gastrotheca microdiscus by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 3, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1984, J. Herpetol., 18: 305. In the Gastrotheca microdiscus group of Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, De la Riva, Pombal, Silva, Rojas-Runjaic, Medina-Méndez, and Frost, 2015, Zootaxa, 4004: 1–72. See detailed account by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 195–199.

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